The news spread like wildfire through every corner of the continent.
"DAWNORO HEIR TO WED ORPHAN GIRL"
"Athenaeum's Top Student Captures North's Most Eligible Bachelor"
"Who Is Cecilia Araceli? The Commoner Who Conquered the Northern King"
Headlines screamed from every newspaper, every magical newsletter, every gossip rag that could get ink on paper.
The engagement of Arkai Dawnoro, the famously aloof, notoriously hard-to-please heir to the north's most elite magic family had been announced, and the world wanted answers.
Most people had never heard of Cecilia Araceli. They scrambled for information, digging through conference attendee lists, academic records, any scrap of data they could find. Who was this woman? Where had she come from? How had she done it?
The rest, those who had witnessed the conference disaster, who had seen her power firsthand, who had followed her academic career, already knew.
